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Ecological Risk Assessment Guidance and Information

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Ecological Risk Assessment Information

This page contains links to guidance on Ecological Risk Assessment and general information on the ERA process.

Ecological Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund: Process for Designing and Conducting Ecological Risk Assessments - Interim Final

http://www.epa.gov/oswer/riskassessment/ecorisk/ecorisk.htm
Complete document of the Eight-step Guidance

Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment

http://www.epa.gov/oswer/riskassessment/index.htm
Technical overview of human health and ecological risk assessment in the various U.S. EPA offices dealing with waste.

EPA Publication: EcoUpdate: Ecological Assessment of Superfund Sites: An Overview (69 KB)

http://www.epa.gov/oswer/riskassessment/ecoup/pdf/v1no2.pdf
How ERAs are used

ECO Update Bulletin Series

http://www.epa.gov/oswer/riskassessment/ecoup/index.htm
Periodic updates on ERA Guidance in Superfund and screening numbers

Contaminated Sediment Methodology

http://www.epa.gov/ost/cs/freshfact.html
Methods for measuring the toxicity and bioaccumulation of sediment-associated contaminants with freshwater invertebrates. U.S. EPA 2000. EPA 600/R-99/064.

NOAA Publications

http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/cpr/library/publications.html
Including site reports for Sheboygan and Cannelton sites

National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA)

http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/ecologic.cfm
Additional information on Ecological Risk Assessment

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